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Implications of transdisciplinarity for sustainability research
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In this article, it is shown that sustainability research for sustainable development has to be issue oriented and reflect the diversity, complexity and dynamics of the processes involved as well as their variability between specific problem situations.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2006-11-01. It has received 590 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transdisciplinarity & Sustainable development.read more
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The Emergence of Transdisciplinarity as a Form of Research
Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn,Susette Biber-Klemm,Walter Grossenbacher-Mansuy,Holger Hoffmann-Riem,Dominique Joye,Christian Pohl,Urs Wiesmann,Elisabeth Zemp +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on transdisciplinarity as a form of research that is driven by the need to solve problems of the life-world, and they define transdisciplinary research as three types of knowledge: systems knowledge, target knowledge and transformation knowledge, and reflect their mutual dependencies in the research process.
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Consulting versus participatory transdisciplinarity: A refined classification of transdisciplinary research
TL;DR: In this article, a distinction can be identified between two different forms of transdisciplinarity; consulting versus participatory transdiscipline, drawing upon the qualitative difference between research conducted including all kinds of actors on equal terms in the knowledge production process, or having actors from outside academia responding and reacting to the research conducted.
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Ecosystem Services, Land-Cover Change, and Stakeholders: Finding a Sustainable Foothold for a Semiarid Biodiversity Hotspot
Belinda Reyers,Patrick J. O’Farrell,Richard M. Cowling,Benis N. Egoh,David C. Le Maitre,Jan Vlok +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the potential supply of, and changes in, five ecosystem services: production of forage, carbon storage, erosion control, water flow regulation, and tourism in the Little Karoo region.
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Transdisciplinarity: A Review of Its Origins, Development, and Current Issues
TL;DR: Transdisciplinarity as discussed by the authors is characterized by its focus on "wicked problems" that need creative solutions, its reliance on stakeholder involvement, and engaged, socially responsible science, and it provides an intriguing potential to invigorate scholarly and scientific inquiry both in and outside the academy.
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Relating ecoystem services to domains of human well-being: Foundation for a U.S. index
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a set of well-being domains that can be linked to ecosystem services via their relationship to economic, environmental and societal wellbeing, which can be used to evaluate the provisioning of ecosystem, economic and social services in a predictive modeling framework.
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Science for the post-normal age
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